it "pops" what kind of girlie ass langauge is that it "pops". The only time that word should be used when talking footbaw is did you hear that pop or damn he popped that guy or damn the ball did pop out of his hand. just say'n

The fact that they rejected Nike's Pro Combat garbage earns them extra points with me. Of course, the wings still take it. The fact that Tsio turned the last two iterations of The Game into their little Nike fashion show still irks me.

Why don't they go back to the Dorsett era with the lighter blue and yellow and the "Pitt" spelled out (rather than "PITT")? I think that looks a lot better and much more identifiable than the current look. What do Pitt folks think about the two images?

If they need to do an MSU/Purdue style "image investigation", just be sure to put in a good word for PurpleStuff's House of Design. I'd be happy to take a few hundred thousand dollars, sit on my ass for a few months, then just print out a photo of Dan Marino in college to show everybody what the "new" uniforms look like.

The Big Ten screwed that thing up royally. I would just have paid Shredder $20 to do an MS Paint portrait of Bennie Joppru, made that the new conference logo and spent the rest of my design fee throwing an MGoCrackParty.

Maybe down the road they will come to their senses and this horrible wrong can be righted.

I remain 80% certain that this is all part of Dave Brandon's elaborate plan to only play Ohio State in corporate sponsored events taking place in mid-July at enormous foreign soccer stadiums. He will then use the sponsorship cash to finance his new movie, "Star Wars Episode VII: Jar Jar Binks Goes to Hollywood" where Yoda comes back from the dead to try Domino's new pizza recipe.

Michigan undergrad, but Pitt law. There's much to be said for the retro look...but to be honest, I like the block PITT look as well. In my opinion, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other. Not that either can compare with the winged helm...

I think stickers can work if they're smaller than the old ones, and tastefully done. Putting them on the ear areas of the helmet wouldn't interfere with the striping. That's where the numbers will be located for the throwback uniforms for the night game.

Posting this in a mood more appropriate for the night following The Horror than a starry, if somewhat windy night following two 4* LB commitments. Atlas Shrugged was worse than I expected and I pegged it to be 70/30 bad. I can't even describe how disillusioned I am with Hollywood. Even people who hate the book can share in shock that a book that sells that well made such a terrible movie: usually big books at least try to go big on the movies, it was just a joke.

Now that I've got that off my chest, I don't think OSU's helmets are that bad. I can't think of a second better helmet in the conference. It's simple and old school, though I do hate the stickers.

Never, not in a million years. After I read that they recast the live-action Akira remake with all-white actors and set it in Manhattan, I don't trust Hollywood to make movies of any classic literature anymore. Harry Potter doesn't count.

Anyways...I posted a few days ago about how Brutus Buckeye is stupid and overexposed, and the battleship gray helmet is similarly overexposed in Columbus. You're sitting there at a stop light, minding your own business, when you suddenly notice OMG there's Brutus and three OSU helmet magnets on the car in front of you, staring you in the face. Now imagine that happening every day for the rest of your life, and you can imagine why I don't much care for their helmet design.

Some teams' away uniforms look better in the B1G then the home uniforms. NU, PSU, Purdue look better on the road. Michigan, Illinois, Wisky, OSU look better at home. The OSU helmets, though, god they make me want to vomit. If they just went with a simple red stripe on a white paint background like Penn State, with or without stickers, they would look so much better than that metallic, sparkly garbage.

I'd recommend The Fountainhead when you're back into lit. Atlas is good as a message, but because it's so laden with message (Rand's attempt at all five branches of philosophy in one story) the plot suffers a bit. Basically, it's a distopic novel about the great thinkers and doers of the world going on strike, and how quickly life will suck if they chose to do that, as well as the wrong way to go about problems that arise as consequences.

Fountainhead focuses on an artist (he's an architect) and his individualist struggle against people unable to recognize greatness, and go with the popular thing without reasoning themselves. It's a very good story and introduces some of Rand's ideas without putting yourself on the line for 1,300 pages. Whatever you think of her (and I do not think she was infallible by any means) she's one of those "important to read" people, like Zinn or Marx or Milton Friedman.

You probably guessed this from that zoning discussion, but I'm a big fan of Rand in a broad, theory type way. Some of her specific opinions are absolute crap, even from someone who wishes her two big novels were even more popular than they are.

Who thought that would make a good movie? Nothing spells blockbuster excitement like a long ass explanation of why going off the gold standard was a bad idea. Or a terrifying villain who wants to plant a bunch of fucking soy beans.

Some things are just books and should just be left alone. Anyone who is smart enough to get what is going on and give a shit one way or or another is smart enough to pick up the book and read it.

Thanks, I don't know what to think, but I agree that Atlas wasn't written to be a movie (though maybe I hold it in higher regard than you). Honestly, I thought an HBO or Showtime mini-series would be the best.

"Anyone who is smart enough to get what is going on and give a shit one way or or another is smart enough to pick up the book and read it."

Honestly, I completely agree. It's the masses that I'm concerned with. This should have either been an appeal to the masses or an appeal to the fans. I just saw a halfhearted attempt at either.

It is also being directed by some dude who has never directed anything other than a few episodes of "One Tree Hill". Throw in a no-name cast, a limited budget, and an attempt to make the book into a theater-released trilogy (so that there is zero flow to the story for people watching in theaters who have to wait a year or more for part two) and this is what you get.

It just seems to me like one of those books/properties/ideas that either shouldn't have been messed with or should have gotten legitimate attention from qualified people with the financial investment to do it well. Instead we get a bunch of anonymous folks rushing to get something done before their option rights expired.

No two colors go together like Maize and Blue. None. Not a single color combination exists in sports that is better than Maize and Blue. Plus almost everyone, even people that don't know sports, can identify Michigan's helmet. Plus how many athletes have come here over the years because of the helmets alone?

Yeah, I don't get the Texas love either. Orange on white is kind of ugly. It's a nice logo, but honestly I think it would probabl look better with the colors flipped. It looks fine with their orange unis, but when they wear white their uniform is just all white, which is neither cool looking nor intimidating.

The Spalding design did not have three stripes. It just had the two wings. Some teams (including MSU for a time) added one middle stripe. Fritz Crisler came up with the idea of having three stripes, which merged in the back.

I don't much buy it. Georgetown U. football archives have this photo of a player named Ray Fusco, who played in 1934. Standard Spalding "winged" design; three stripes; "G" on the front, as with the "S" on the front of Michigan State College's 1930's helmets. Ray Fusco only played one year for Georgetown (1934) and he wore #21:

There has always been more myth than fact surrounding Fritz Crisler's involvement in helmet designs. Crisler can take enough credit for being one of the great football coaches in history, (Biggie Munn was a Crisler assistant; Crisler fathered future coaching careers the way Woody and Bo did) even without helmet designs.

the leather helmet in the front. Then many schools used different colors for the wing and the rest of the helmet. Michigan stuck with the color scheme even after helmets went plastic and there was no reason for the reinforced, thicker leather in the front.

Kind of interesting that one of the writers picked Wyoming, which is a nice logo, and always reminds me of one of the better bars in the world, the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson.

A sort of funny but true story is that during the 2004 Presidential campaign, Dick and Lynne Cheney were seated near me for one of our October games during a Michigan campaign stop, and I asked him to autograph my ticket stub. And in just trying to make small talk, I asked the Vice President who the Wyoming Cowboys were playing that day. What else do you say to a Wyoming guy? And he kind of panicked, because he obviously didn't know, but didn't want to say. As though a reporter would be recording the answer. I quickly changed the subject.

As a Georgia alum...I have to agree. I've never liked our G and the fact that an NFL uses basically the same G. In Georgia's defense, they were the ones who designed the current form of the G that both teams now use. Georgia stole the original packer's G, modified a bit, then the packers liked the modification and used it too. At least thats what they told us when I was a student there.

The more people do these polls, the less people will pick Michigan because people are tired of picking Michigan's helmets year in and year out so when they come up again, people do insane things like pick Wyoming's helmet just to add some spice to the immense boredom of being a college football writer in the off-season

Michigan has the best helmets period. Second place should by default go to Delaware. After that it really doesn't matter. As long as we find little brother, Cheater State and Notre Lame at the bottom of the heap.